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WHY ISN’T THIS INDOCTRINATION CRIMINAL?

This is a very creepy article, but one we might have anticipated from the excellent Jeffrey Toobin profile of Ted Cruz’s early education in free market ideology in the next to most recent issue of The New Yorker (see here).

I am not radical left. I am pragmatic left. But the more I see what people like the Kochs are doing the more I move away from pragmatism and towards just plain angry!

Excerpts from the report and my comments follow:

“In some ways, the class looked like a typical high school business course, taught in a Highland Park classroom by a Highland Park teacher. But it was actually run by Youth Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit group created and funded primarily by Charles G. Koch, the billionaire chairman of Koch Industries.